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  ‘God Bless Us, Every One!’ North Texas Performing Arts’ Scrooge the Musical Gives Back

  December 12 at 4 a.m.

  Tonight kicks off the ninth year of North Texas Performing Arts’ annual production of Scrooge the Musical. It might ring a bell. It's Christmas time around 1843, and Ebenezer Scrooge (Darrell Rodenbaugh) has spent much of his life neglecting his loved ones and acquiring material possessions. He is granted one...

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  The Perfectly Executed Chaos of Theatre Three’s Noises Off

  December 12 at 4 a.m.

  Noises Off by Michael Frayn is one of those risky plays that tries to tell a story about theater by means of the medium of theater — risky because any meta story threatens to be esoteric, relying too heavily on material that only makes sense to those within the world...

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  Soul Rep Theatre’s DOT Is a Holiday Story that Packs a Punch

  December 11 at 4 a.m.

  ’Tis the season for theater companies to produce fun holiday-themed stories, and Soul Rep Theatre’s regional premiere of DOT, playing at South Dallas Cultural Center through Dec. 22, is certainly focused on Christmas. But Christmas stories can give audiences cause for trepidation. After all, holiday stories can tend toward the...

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  You Better Watch Out: A John Waters Christmas: Filthier & Merrier Is Coming to Town

  December 5 at 4 a.m.

  In John Waters' 1974 dark comedy Female Trouble, Dawn Davenport (Devine) crushes all of her family's Christmas presents and turns the tree over on her mother when she doesn't get the cha-cha heels she wanted because "nice girls don't wear cha-cha heels." So began Waters' public relationship with toppling Christmas...

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  The 20 Best Things to Do in Dallas This Week, Dec. 3 – 8

  December 3 at 4 a.m.

  Tuesday, December 3 Ernie Kovacs Retrospective Dallas VideoFest annually presents The Ernie Kovacs Award to television’s comedy visionaries. In doing so, the organization normally presents a smattering of clips featuring the man who inspired so many laughs, as well as the talent honored — this year’s recipient is John Cleese...

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  Hopeless Vice Reigns in Kitchen Dog Theater’s Queen of Basel

  November 27 at 4 a.m.

  A beautiful socialite, a cocktail waitress and an Uber driver are the characters who make up Queen of Basel, playing at Kitchen Dog Theater through Dec. 15. The trio, played respectively by Kat Lozano, Stephanie Cleghorn Jasso and Lee George, is set up like dominoes to represent a variety of...